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1/18/2007 11:57 AM
 
alex

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We are playing with DNN on a one click hosting package.

We want to be able to build the site and then go live. But at the moment the site is visible to the public as we do the changes. How do we stop people being able to see our experiments?

thanks
 
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1/18/2007 3:59 PM
 
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you can place a default.html in your roo folder with the appropriate text and set it in web site configuration as first default document. you will need to address you site with the appendix www.mydomain.com/default.aspx
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1/19/2007 5:15 PM
 
alex

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Thanks - oder "Danke" - ich habe ein bichen Deutsche?

In the words of Homer Simpson "Doh" that should have been obvious to us - but it wasn't so thanks for the help.

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1/19/2007 5:28 PM
 
Matthew Christenson

Joined: 10/19/2006
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aogilvie wrote

We are playing with DNN on a one click hosting package.

We want to be able to build the site and then go live. But at the moment the site is visible to the public as we do the changes. How do we stop people being able to see our experiments?

thanks

You could set up a site only for a host header that does not exist (test.sitename.com); and then add that host name to your local hosts file (on a windows machine located at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).  Because the host name does not exist on a public DNS server; only someone who knows the 'fake' domain name you are using, as well as the server IP address - could put that domain name / address relation in their local hosts file to view the website.

This is what I have been doing forever and it works great both to hide pages from the general public, as well as switching from production sites and test sites using the same URL...  just be sure that if you use this idea that you remember what page you're really looking at - since you're overriding public DNS resolution.
 
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1/19/2007 5:32 PM
 
Matthew Christenson

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mattchristenson wrote
 aogilvie wrote

We are playing with DNN on a one click hosting package.

We want to be able to build the site and then go live. But at the moment the site is visible to the public as we do the changes. How do we stop people being able to see our experiments?

thanks

 

 

You could set up a site only for a host header that does not exist (test.sitename.com); and then add that host name to your local hosts file (on a windows machine located at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).  Because the host name does not exist on a public DNS server; only someone who knows the 'fake' domain name you are using, as well as the server IP address - could put that domain name / address relation in their local hosts file to view the website.

This is what I have been doing forever and it works great both to hide pages from the general public, as well as switching from production sites and test sites using the same URL...  just be sure that if you use this idea that you remember what page you're really looking at - since you're overriding public DNS resolution.

I should comment that this is not a SECURE solution; it will not PROHIBIT others from seeing the site; clear text requests could be monitored and the host header / IP address combination could be seen and then entered by anyone in their hosts file; it will just make it so they would have to go through a process that is quite unussual to get to the site, and so nobody will be able to see the site 'on accident'.  So while this is a nice quick solution, it should not be used to protect sensitive information.
 
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